So much going on those days, and every one seemed so happy and excited to see all the genuine talent on show. Stars were stars those days, and deserved to be called stars.
Yeah and everyone had a bath once a week, men didn't use deodorant and many working class people lived in appalling conditions in cities shrouded in pollution. Happy times!
@@knockshinnoch1950 I was one of those men we had a bath i had one three times a week nowadays people have no baths it's a shower or two a week a lot of men today have no clothes sense there sloppy 🪣and proud of it in our day we had Great pride in our appearance we were cool🦺we dide t have todays money yet we were a lot happier yeah yeah yeah Not a mobile phone📲 to be seen we all spoke face to face😊
RSG was all mimed in the early days. But then they changed the name to Ready Steady Goes Live and bands had to perform live. This was the best time for RSG.
3:49. Van Morrison!, Early days indeed!. Cilla and Lulu still doing alright!. Dusty.. wonderfull singer. The Animals...embroyonic rock. Beatles, its all been said, legends. Music was really varied then!..Georgie Fame :) Beach Boys...Fantastic music. Pete and Dud!. Cathy McGowan! :)..beautifull. and finally...The stones..Paint it black.. what an era! Thanks for this!
The strange thing is the Dave Clark Five never appeared on Ready Steady Go. Dave put in clips of the band from other shows when he bought the rights to Ready Steady Go so it looked like they were on it.
Sadly, most of the RSG! archive has been lost. What survives runs (as far as I know) to about four or five complete or near-complete shows plus a batch of clips from a few others. Most of this dates from the first 18 months or so of the show's original run - from October 1963 up to early 1965. After this, only two shows are known to exist anywhere near complete - one from July 1965, and the "Otis Redding Special" from September 1966. Again, a few clips from various other shows still survive. A book is coming out in the late summer or early autumn of 2020 telling the full history of RSG! (I didn't write it, sadly) and will include a complete and comprehensive guide to EVERY show broadcast between 1963 and 1966, including details of who appeared on each show, what songs they performed and exactly what footage is known to still exist.
+Brenda O'Connell Were you fortunate enough to rub elbows with The Beatles and The Stones because I read That Marianne Faithful was friends with both,especially being Mick's Girlfriend.
As a frequent visitor to usa you can listen to all these numbers i know most "made it " over there it just appears that they appreciate these classics .Even Ferry across the mersey. many thanks for posting . What a great time in music history
Oh My, it seems like yesterday, thank you so much for posting this. I think I had all those songs as singles then..Amazing the bands right in amongst the audience
The 1960s Rolling Stones are the REAL Rolling Stones. It just seems in the subsequent decades the group was a rock business establishment. No complaints about the standard of the 70s and 80s however, as the Stones always maintained a high level of craftsmanship, but I just think the 1960s was their coolest image.
The song listing misses out The Animals 'Baby Let Me Take You Home', Billy Fury 'I Will'. Them 'Baby Please Don't Go', Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames 'Yeh Yeh', The Beach Boys 'I Get Around' and an appearance by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore singing 'Goodbye'
Although produced in Britain at the height of the British Invasion, and quite popuilar in the UK, "Ready, Steady Go!" should have also been successful in the United States. But no American network picked-up the show, perhaps because it was in black-and-white, at a time when ABC, CBS and NBC were converting to full-color broadcasting. Had "RSG" been in colo(u)r, chances are it would have been seen in and become a big hit in the 'States during 1964-66 as well.
@MothersHour His name was Keith Fordyce, and yes he was a straight-laced cambridge law graduate but then he became a DJ for Radio Luxembourg. He also hosted New Musical Express at times.
Jonnie Ray, Brenda Lee, Tommy Roe, Donovan, The Big Bopper just to name a few of my favorites in the soundtrack of my life! Sadly I WAS born too late (1982) 'cause I'm the only gal I know my age that listens almost exclusively to this* Absolutely Fabulous* music? Come to think of it "AbFab", The Comic Strip, The Young Ones + I think I was born in the wrong country as well? LoL
Happy to hear from anyone who shares my interests or can share any more FAB videos such as this!!! Cheers Kerri Ann= Like the song... only spelled different ;)
I danced on RSG 3 times.Pretty chaotic at times with the cameramen pushing you out of the way.Met a new band in a coffee bar near the Reddifusion studios in Kingsway who were called the Kinks.But it was THE show for Mods.TOTP rubbish in comparison.
The greatest TV pop show ever, reduced to an abominably-edited mess. RSG was available years ago on VHS, which tapes are now very hard to get and carry a price-tag to match. And despite the screen at the end of this sequence, I've never been able to find RSG on DVD. How about it, Dave?
So the Beachboys invented surfing did they?....I'm not sure that any of them actually did surf! I don't think I missed one broadcast of RSG it was "Fab". During an interview with P J "Call me Jim" Proby (I think) Cathy Mcgowan said that she noticed his nails on his right hand were much longer than those on the left "Is that to strum a guitar?" she asked "No!" he said..."It's because I can't hold the scissors very well in my lefthand to cut them!"....PRICELESS! Great post thanks!
Well picked up, Murphy - no, the Beach Boys did NOT invent surf music. It was Jan & Dean, their close friends, who did, making the early recordings in Jan Berry's garage. Only Dennis Wilson actually surfed!
Remind me how RSG was recorded back then. The bands (groups as we then called them) seem to be lip-synching rather badly. Did they come in for the afternoon's rehearsal, lay down the track and then mime to it later when the show went live? Or were they miming to the record?
The miming stopped when they moved to a bigger studio around 65. Complicated music arrangements just could not be accommodated in the smaller studio due to so much public wanting to be there. TOTPs had its own orchestra and backing singers so if a tune needed strings etc that would be recorded as a backing track in the afternoon..
Connie Francis was on this in May 1965 singing MY CHILD.I wonder if there is footage?A big Fan of the 1950's 1960's.And if she appeared again.I only know 1 epis
Juke Box Jury was less exciting, just a panel, but it had that Beryl or somebody from Birmingham who became an international celebrity just by saying "Oi'll give it foive" repeatedly. It doesn't take much. Before these was "The Six Five Special" - skiffle - Lonnie Donegan. Check it out for a blast from the past..
I'm gonna say this once, and once only. Janice (Oi'll give it foive) Nicholls WAS NOT ON BBC'S JUKE BOX JURY!! She was in the "Spin A Disc" slot - which like JBJ assessed new releases - on Thank Your Lucky Stars, a show on the rival ITV network.
who the heck was that emcee? for such a forward tv show, why does he look so stuffy!!? But I did love it back in the day, thought it was miles ahead of Top of the Pops!! where is Kathy McGowan? OMG, it's Cilla!! Thanks so much for this part of my growing up!!!! took me back..and thoroughly enjoyed the trip......great editing...!
who the heck was that emcee? for such a forward tv show, why does he look so stuffy!!? But I did love it back in the day, thought it was miles ahead of Top of the Pops!! where is Kathy McGowan? OMG, it's Cilla!!
who the heck was that emcee? for such a forward tv show, why does he look so stuffy!!? But I did love it back in the day, thought it was miles ahead of Top of the Pops!! where is Kathy McGowan? OMG, it's Cilla!! Thanks so much for this part of my growing up!!!! took me back...!
who the heck was that emcee? for such a forward tv show, why does he look so stuffy!!? But I did love it back in the day, thought it was miles ahead of Top of the Pops!! where is Kathy McGowan? OMG, it's Cilla!! Thanks so much for this part of my growing up!!!!
Really? The Beach Boys and the Stones didn't look that way. They were all mimed until mid 1965. After that, to the shows demise in December 1966; I think they were "Live"
Beach Boys - definitely live. Leads on the guitars, and anyone confusing Hal Blaine's drumming on the record with Dennis Wilson's here must have cloth ears.
Don't know enough to contradict or confirm that assertion. But I was ready to be furious at the DC5 getting to play their whole number over the credits at the end instead of being cut off short like all the rest. Just as well they didn't.
My heart is so sad where have all the years gone. I blinked my eyes and suddenly i`m old.
That's life! 👍
Ready Seady Go was a must watch before we went out on a Friday night. All suited and booted.
So much going on those days, and every one seemed so happy and excited to see all the genuine talent on show. Stars were stars those days, and deserved to be called stars.
And they could actually sing, dance and play instruments.
Did you notice the look of joy and optimism that people had during this time and looking smartly dressed was paramount. Being British was cool.
I would have loved to have been alive at this time. Wonderful.
Yeah and everyone had a bath once a week, men didn't use deodorant and many working class people lived in appalling conditions in cities shrouded in pollution. Happy times!
@@knockshinnoch1950 I was one of those men we had a bath i had one three times a week nowadays people have no baths it's a shower or two a week a lot of men today have no clothes sense there sloppy 🪣and proud of it in our day we had
Great pride in our appearance we were cool🦺we dide t have todays money yet we were a lot happier yeah yeah yeah
Not a mobile phone📲 to be seen we all spoke face to face😊
@@patdoyle3686 Well said, yes far happier days, I certainly don’t envy the young of today, it’s a horrible world.
Britain has really gone down the toilet lately, especially London.
Everybody was happy in those days.....notice all slim, no tattoos, we lived within our means....great times,👍
There is a fantastic book about the show that is jam packed with info including the guest list for every episode!
They were the days..a 60s..
Brilliant..far out
Us “Boomers” had the happiest years of our lives, we were very fortunate.
It used to be the highlight of the week. Unlike today's over
processed music. It was even better when the groups started
to sing live.
loved this when i was a teenager many moons ago
women defnitely had the nicest hairstyles in those days
RSG was all mimed in the early days. But then they changed the name to Ready Steady Goes Live and bands had to perform live. This was the best time for RSG.
3:49. Van Morrison!, Early days indeed!.
Cilla and Lulu still doing alright!.
Dusty.. wonderfull singer.
The Animals...embroyonic rock.
Beatles, its all been said, legends.
Music was really varied then!..Georgie Fame :)
Beach Boys...Fantastic music.
Pete and Dud!.
Cathy McGowan! :)..beautifull.
and finally...The stones..Paint it black..
what an era!
Thanks for this!
The strange thing is the Dave Clark Five never appeared on Ready Steady Go. Dave put in clips of the band from other shows when he bought the rights to Ready Steady Go so it looked like they were on it.
Sadly, most of the RSG! archive has been lost. What survives runs (as far as I know) to about four or five complete or near-complete shows plus a batch of clips from a few others. Most of this dates from the first 18 months or so of the show's original run - from October 1963 up to early 1965. After this, only two shows are known to exist anywhere near complete - one from July 1965, and the "Otis Redding Special" from September 1966. Again, a few clips from various other shows still survive.
A book is coming out in the late summer or early autumn of 2020 telling the full history of RSG! (I didn't write it, sadly) and will include a complete and comprehensive guide to EVERY show broadcast between 1963 and 1966, including details of who appeared on each show, what songs they performed and exactly what footage is known to still exist.
I thought that Dave Clark of DC5 fame had bought all the recordings...
Awesome footage here. Not the first time I've seen it but still a great collection of outstanding performances.
A must read book--''Ready Steady Go! The Weekend Starts Here'' by Andy Neill.
I worked for Marianne Faithfull and went to all her shows with her Including R S G.
+Brenda O'Connell Bet those were exceptional times, Brenda!
+Lane Bayliss they sure were.
+Brenda O'Connell Were you fortunate enough to rub elbows with The Beatles and The Stones because I read That Marianne Faithful was friends with both,especially being Mick's Girlfriend.
+Michael Lantz I could write a book. LOL.
- Dear Brenda, please do write that book..!
.
As a frequent visitor to usa you can listen to all these numbers i know most "made it " over there it just appears that they appreciate these classics .Even Ferry across the mersey.
many thanks for posting . What a great time in music history
Legends galore no doubt about it
Dusty looks so amazingly COOL and in charge here!
Instrumental in bringing many black groups to England.
Damn this brings back memories! Bloody brilliant.
Love this show..RIP Keith Fordyce
The weekend starts here!!! yay great times
Oh My, it seems like yesterday, thank you so much for posting this. I think I had all those songs as singles then..Amazing the bands right in amongst the audience
I'm so glad these samples of gold did'nt suffer the same fate as those from "Top Of The Pops".
The 1960s Rolling Stones are the REAL Rolling Stones. It just seems in the subsequent decades the group was a rock business establishment. No complaints about the standard of the 70s and 80s however, as the Stones always maintained a high level of craftsmanship, but I just think the 1960s was their coolest image.
When Brian Jones was part.
OMG!!! :) THANK YOU for uploading this. The Beatles, Dusty Spingfield, LuLu, The Animals... I AM in HEAVEN watching this, just tottally made my day!!!
Damn brilliant compilation! Brings back so many memories.
Sadly Keith Fordyce passed away on March 27th 2011 after a long illness - He was 83.
The song listing misses out The Animals 'Baby Let Me Take You Home', Billy Fury 'I Will'. Them 'Baby Please Don't Go', Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames 'Yeh Yeh', The Beach Boys 'I Get Around' and an appearance by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore singing 'Goodbye'
Van the man👍
My husband was so in love with lu lu!
WONDERFUL DAYS!
Anybody got a time machine
I can borrow?
Although produced in Britain at the height of the British Invasion, and quite popuilar in the UK, "Ready, Steady Go!" should have also been successful in the United States.
But no American network picked-up the show, perhaps because it was in black-and-white, at a time when ABC, CBS and NBC were converting to full-color broadcasting.
Had "RSG" been in colo(u)r, chances are it would have been seen in and become a big hit in the 'States during 1964-66 as well.
Great show! 👍
I was in love with Cathy McGowan!!!
She was in love with herself.
Me too!
We had hope, a future to look forward to...not like today.
What a crush I had on Dusty Springfield wow.
@MothersHour His name was Keith Fordyce, and yes he was a straight-laced cambridge law graduate but then he became a DJ for Radio Luxembourg. He also hosted New Musical Express at times.
Never to be repeated TV!
Jonnie Ray, Brenda Lee, Tommy Roe, Donovan, The Big Bopper just to name a few of my favorites in the soundtrack of my life! Sadly I WAS born too late (1982) 'cause I'm the only gal I know my age that listens almost exclusively to this* Absolutely Fabulous* music? Come to think of it "AbFab", The Comic Strip, The Young Ones + I think I was born in the wrong country as well? LoL
Kingsway Studios Holborn a stones throw (ish) from Tin Pan Alley, Denmark St
That was "groovy". Thank you
Perfect ! Perfect ! Perfect !
Amusing to see Peter Cook criticising the "long-haired people", when John Lennon and Paul McCartney were in fact regular dinner-party guests of his!!
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were joking, putting on posh voices.
Happy to hear from anyone who shares my interests or can share any more FAB videos such as this!!!
Cheers
Kerri Ann= Like the song... only spelled different ;)
Big Chas on bass with the Animals, later managed Hendrix
He managed glam rockers Slade.
There's almost no footage of Cathy McGowan here! Ye cannae have an RSG compilation without Cathy McGowan.
God, why does there feel so much hate on Cathy McGowan?
Wow!
What a lineup.
I danced on RSG 3 times.Pretty chaotic at times with the cameramen pushing you out of the way.Met a new band in a coffee bar near the Reddifusion studios in Kingsway who were called the Kinks.But it was THE show for Mods.TOTP rubbish in comparison.
I now work in this building!
jivinman no comparison with top of the,pops.
fantastic :)
I went to RSG in the 60,s with my best mate Pam.
The greatest TV pop show ever, reduced to an abominably-edited mess. RSG was available years ago on VHS, which tapes are now very hard to get and carry a price-tag to match. And despite the screen at the end of this sequence, I've never been able to find RSG on DVD. How about it, Dave?
Many of the original tapes have been lost.
So the Beachboys invented surfing did they?....I'm not sure that any of them actually did surf! I don't think I missed one broadcast of RSG it was "Fab". During an interview with P J "Call me Jim" Proby (I think) Cathy Mcgowan said that she noticed his nails on his right hand were much longer than those on the left "Is that to strum a guitar?" she asked "No!" he said..."It's because I can't hold the scissors very well in my lefthand to cut them!"....PRICELESS! Great post thanks!
Well picked up, Murphy - no, the Beach Boys did NOT invent surf music. It was Jan & Dean, their close friends, who did, making the early recordings in Jan Berry's garage. Only Dennis Wilson actually surfed!
I'll give it five!
That's "Thank your lucky stars" not this!
- It looks like Kenny Everett having a cameo appearance the first seconds of the clip..
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some of the shows came from the wembley studios london weekend studios at wembley park every friday and it was a live show
Remind me how RSG was recorded back then. The bands (groups as we then called them) seem to be lip-synching rather badly. Did they come in for the afternoon's rehearsal, lay down the track and then mime to it later when the show went live? Or were they miming to the record?
The miming stopped when they moved to a bigger studio around 65. Complicated music arrangements just could not be accommodated in the smaller studio due to so much public wanting to be there. TOTPs had its own orchestra and backing singers so if a tune needed strings etc that would be recorded as a backing track in the afternoon..
👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
The weekend starts now!
Woot! Charlie Watts is the coolest Daddy-o.
They just don't make oldies like they use to.
I love you, Dusty!
Great video.. 🔥
The Beach Boys invented surf music? Don't tell Jan Berry & Dean Torrence, who invented surf music!
Cathy Magowan is with Michael Ball these days!
well i have no comments about men's hairstyles since as a man i enjoy looking at women's hairdos
is there any footage of the Artwoods doing Sweet Mary on RSG, one of the 1st live RSG performances? Is it on taht DVD?
Connie Francis was on this in May 1965 singing MY CHILD.I wonder if there is footage?A big Fan of the 1950's 1960's.And if she appeared again.I only know 1 epis
Juke Box Jury was less exciting, just a panel, but it had that Beryl or somebody from Birmingham who became an international celebrity just by saying "Oi'll give it foive" repeatedly. It doesn't take much. Before these was "The Six Five Special" - skiffle - Lonnie Donegan. Check it out for a blast from the past..
Janice :)
Janice Nicholls.
I'm gonna say this once, and once only. Janice (Oi'll give it foive) Nicholls WAS NOT ON BBC'S JUKE BOX JURY!! She was in the "Spin A Disc" slot - which like JBJ assessed new releases - on Thank Your Lucky Stars, a show on the rival ITV network.
Wow... off for another steak dinner... are we boys?
Gold era
You couldn't go out until after RSG finished...
who the heck was that emcee? for such a forward tv show, why does he look so stuffy!!? But I did love it back in the day, thought it was miles ahead of Top of the Pops!! where is Kathy McGowan? OMG, it's Cilla!! Thanks so much for this part of my growing up!!!! took me back..and thoroughly enjoyed the trip......great editing...!
Keith Fordyce he was dead with it!
who the heck was that emcee? for such a forward tv show, why does he look so stuffy!!? But I did love it back in the day, thought it was miles ahead of Top of the Pops!! where is Kathy McGowan? OMG, it's Cilla!!
Such an interesting accent. New Jersey?
are these of the ready steady go Betamax box set
Ive got it somewhere on/on my site, I'll try and send it to ya!!
Tre
Liverpool Mods.
who the heck was that emcee? for such a forward tv show, why does he look so stuffy!!? But I did love it back in the day, thought it was miles ahead of Top of the Pops!! where is Kathy McGowan? OMG, it's Cilla!! Thanks so much for this part of my growing up!!!! took me back...!
who the heck was that emcee? for such a forward tv show, why does he look so stuffy!!? But I did love it back in the day, thought it was miles ahead of Top of the Pops!! where is Kathy McGowan? OMG, it's Cilla!! Thanks so much for this part of my growing up!!!!
Did anybody spot kenny Everet in the intro?
fuck man,thanks for the post. shit im getting old.lol
Is that 2 girls dancing together? What ever next?
@spanjoar That was really long hair then.
All overdubbed. Except the Beatles when they're receiving their "award", though -- they can hardly take the announcer seriously.
Really?
The Beach Boys and the Stones didn't look that way.
They were all mimed until mid 1965.
After that, to the shows demise in December 1966; I think they were "Live"
Beach Boys - definitely live. Leads on the guitars, and anyone confusing Hal Blaine's drumming on the record with Dennis Wilson's here must have cloth ears.
They didn't scream the way American girls did/do
Who was the guy that introduced Lulu?
no Davy Jones and the King Bees either
Who were actually quite shite!
Beach Boys
For Paul Gadd - the real name of Gary Glitter
Ace
bring dusty on hildq
1964
Fuckin' ace!
5:57 rotfl "whaddya mean ... surfing is a sport"
4.50-5:10..5:49......
DC5 were never on ready steady go.
Don't know enough to contradict or confirm that assertion. But I was ready to be furious at the DC5 getting to play their whole number over the credits at the end instead of being cut off short like all the rest. Just as well they didn't.
hihi you mean guys' were even worse?